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2:08PM Jess McGuire | Post-divorce Peter Andre seems to be going great guns. People in the UK seem to vaguely respect him for behaving in a relatively classy way during his split from Katie Price, he’s looking buff again, he’s just released his first album in half a decade, and now teenage girls are going wild for him, old school style! More »
Peter Andre Swamped By Fans Of His Music… No, Really.
2:08PM Jess McGuire | Post-divorce Peter Andre seems to be going great guns. People in the UK seem to vaguely respect him for behaving in a relatively classy way during his split from Katie Price, he’s looking buff again, he’s just released his first album in half a decade, and now teenage girls are going wild for him, old school style! More » 
People
The Steve Jobs Video Wall Street Will Be Poring Over
1:50AM Ryan Tate | “I probably need to gain about 30 pounds,” Steve Jobs told the New York Times after his return to public life yesterday. Might as well concede the obvious, what with investors looking to pounce on any unexpected physical weakness. More »
People
Steve Jobs’ Command Performance
5:39AM Ryan Tate | In the end, Steve Jobs didn’t have much to announce in San Francisco today—a new iPod Nano with a video camera, a faster iPod Touch. But the Apple CEO knew he needed to show his face, and he did. More »
Small Screen
8:34AM Jess McGuire | Forums are the most reliable place to get accurate information about things, don’t you agree? They’ve never led me down the wrong path. Forget mainstream news outlets, it’s all about OMG and smiley face filled banter for me! So when I found the following tidbit on the Behind Big Brother forums, I believed it immediately. More »
Could Big Brother Be Coming Back To Our Screens?
8:34AM Jess McGuire | Forums are the most reliable place to get accurate information about things, don’t you agree? They’ve never led me down the wrong path. Forget mainstream news outlets, it’s all about OMG and smiley face filled banter for me! So when I found the following tidbit on the Behind Big Brother forums, I believed it immediately. More »
Big Screen
Lindsay Lohan To Star In Something Other Than TMZ Shorts
11:50PM Joshua Stein | Sad lifejoke Lindsay Lohan was once, you may remember, a working actress. She starred in films such as The Parent Trap and the one about the schizophrenic peg-legged stripper. Those days might be back. More »
Small Screen
Jay Leno’s Best Sick Jokes
9:44PM Ryan Tate | Jay Leno’s rep says it looks like dehydration sent the Tonight Show host to the hospital last week. But Leno prefers to process his trauma by mocking Conan O’Brien and Ben Silverman. More »Jet Are Reborn!
8:40AM Jess McGuire | Remember the other week I was going to tell you about the band that had sold a heap of records and were playing a small gig on the QT? I forgot to do it! Ha! We’ll laugh about it later, trust me.
Anyway, the band was Jet and they played a gig to die-hard fans on Wednesday night at The East Brunswick Club in Melbourne. I hosted trivia there on the Tuesday and the band were rehearsing.
THINGS OF NOTE
· They were happily drinking at the bar earlier on in the evening, according to certain trivia punters.
· They looked very fashionable, with lead singer Nic Cester sporting a fetching denim jacket and scarf combination.
· Numerous people assured me the new stuff sounded “really different” and also, “awesome”.
And now, to The Age for a proper review of something even better than sound check – the gig itself!
They are surely the biggest unsigned band in Australia right now. And after more than 15 months’ absence from the stage, on Wednesday night in front of a packed room of die-hard fans, family and friends, Melbourne’s biggest rock exports of the past decade made their return.
The gig at the East Brunswick Club was significant for an act now deemed to be at something of a musical crossroads.
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Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Comeback Secret: ‘I Opened the Fruit’
6:05AM STV | We weren’t kidding when we presaged a renaissance for Jean-Claude Van Damme, whose Cannes hit JCVD — an indie satire featuring the action star as a forlorn, tormented version of his once ass-kicking self — is drawing high praise ahead of its limited US release this weekend. Eighty percent of critics at Rotten Tomatoes are behind it, but frankly, as they’re part of the reason Van Damme was ever a punchline in the first place: To hell with them. A new pair of interviews with the Phoenix of Belgium sums up all you need to know about a comeback that makes Mickey Rourke’s look puny in comparison.
Amy Poehler’s Girl-Power Web Comeback Finally Gets Premiere Date
3:55AM STV | If you had “feminist Web series” for the win in your What’s Next For Amy Poehler? brackets, congratulations. After ditching Saturday Night Live for maternity leave and months of lingering attachments to a rumoured Office spinoff, Poehler will officially be back onscreen in less than two weeks with her online effort Smart Girls at the Party. More »
